"I never trust the airlines from those countries where the pilots believe in the afterlife. You are safer when they don't."

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Source : Muriel Spark (1994). “The Driver's Seat”, p.68, New Directions Publishing

Muriel Spark

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“I base everything on my own life experiences as a female. I start from there, and then I look for characters and settings that I think are cinematic, where I can use symbols and imagery to tell a story.”

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“I only like food without color, like potatoes, bread, and pasta.”
“It's terrible to lose your brain and your power to be conscious or in the moment.”
“Prayer is the key discipline whereby all spiritual work is done.”
“Itâ€™s all right to tell a man to lift himself by his own bootstraps, but it is cruel jest to say to a bootless man that he ought to lift himself by his own bootstraps.”
“The heart of the matter, as I see it, is the stark fact that world poverty is primarily a problem of two million villages, and thus a problem of two thousand million villagers.”
“Tis hard to find God, but to comprehend Him, as He is, is labour without end.”
“I hated Ali. God might not like me talking that way, but its in my heart.”

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